I finally found an hour or so to go through the interview I did with Alan Jones the other week, so I've included some bits from it in the latest podcast, which means less music, but more stories about how many cans of ale you could get up your arse at the Anvil in New York (I think it's worth losing a bit of music for such salaciousness).

Monday, 14 September 2009

I did this track over a year ago and gave it to Connie from the Idjut Boys and apparently he's been playing it ever since. It's still not really finished, but I thought I'd let it sneak out a bit since I'm nowhere near getting round to completing it properly and it's sitting on my hard-drive looking miserably and lonely.

Friday, 11 September 2009

Good to be back in the seat again, after a few weeks' rest. Thanks again to Neville Watson and his magic pants for sitting in for me. Some great stuff on the show this week. Obviously I'd say that cos it's my show, but it's true, guv, honest.

Tuesday, 8 September 2009

The third book of the year and we've got yet another corker in store. If you are too young to have been around in the late '80s, the Boy's Own lot were instrumental in helping kick start acid house in the south-east. As well as the fanzine, they ran parties, mouthed off, went to footie, wore some natty threads and occasionally daft trainers. They were the first to document in print the existence of acid house and, once the euphoria had died down, could also be its fiercest critics.

They were having so much fun that in six years they only managed to loose off 12 issues. But these 440 pages depict acid house culture – the slang, the parties, the tunes, the humour – better than anything, as captured in the words of Farley, Mayes, Weatherall, Oakenfold and many more key players. As well as every page of every fanzine there’s a great interview with all the Boys.

If you pre-order now, through DJHistory, you'll get a FREE 7-inch single featuring Bocca Juniors' Raise.

Here's the last of the two shows that Neville Watson did for me while I was away in Croatia (nice pants, Nev). And very good it is, too. I do like that Hardton fella he's been raving about on ths show (and to me on the phone). We're going to try and bring him over to perform at Low Life.

OK, so I've been away in Croatia for the Electric Elephant festival. But in my absence, the extremely capable (and not even slightly clammy) hands of Neville Watson have been manning the tillers and decks. And a mighty fine job he's done, too. He even played Prince's The Future on this one, which I'd just - spookily - pulled out and started playing again myself. As Sting would say, synchronicity!

Anyhow, here's the tracklisting for the first of Neville's DJ History podcasts. Big up yourself, Nev.